Laptop screen replacement

**noparlpf** · 2014-01-01, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)

Kind of a weird question, but how bad an idea would it be to try to mount an HDMI monitor on my old laptop's base? The bloody graphics card cable is so poorly designed that every time I replace it it just wears out again in a few months, so the screen never works and I've just removed it so I can use an external monitor anyway

**Grinner** · 2014-01-01, 06:45 PM (ISO 8601)

Assuming you can get it set up while headless, that's actually pretty clever.

**Drumbum42** · 2014-01-02, 01:09 PM (ISO 8601)

Are you going to be mobile with it? Or tied to a desk. Because I don't think that the monitor will take a laptop power cable.

**noparlpf** · 2014-01-02, 01:27 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Drumbum42

Are you going to be mobile with it? Or tied to a desk. Because I don't think that the monitor will take a laptop power cable.

I'd like it to be mobile again, but that means figuring out some kind of battery pack for the monitor. Any ideas?

**Grinner** · 2014-01-02, 04:49 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by noparlpf

I'd like it to be mobile again, but that means figuring out some kind of battery pack for the monitor. Any ideas?

More importantly, do you intend to lug the monitor around? I thought you meant converting it into a desktop. Do they even sell monitors small enough to sit in the laptop's frame?

**noparlpf** · 2014-01-02, 05:33 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Grinner

More importantly, do you intend to lug the monitor around? I thought you meant converting it into a desktop. Do they even sell monitors small enough to sit in the laptop's frame?

Wide 18.5" monitors still exist, yeah. It's a big laptop. As it is now it's basically a desktop; I took the screen off and I'm using the laptop as a keyboard.

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